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Fair housing demystified
When she was 14, she became friends with Ruby, a black girl, who worked in her aunt’s hair salon in McKinney, Texas, and had...
True integration
As smartphones and other mobile devices overtake the desktop computer in popularity, apps for anything and everything abound, from ordering a pizza or Uber...
Multifamily’s great reno invasion
Among those speakers was Chip Gaines, who recounted his experience doing facelifts on single-family homes in Waco, Texas, during his presentation at the conference....
Teeing up qualified prospects
The marketplace also is hesitantly trying out new customer relationship management (CRM) technologies for life-cycle consumer management in the hopes they will increase profitability...
Tale of a technology innovator
In the multifamily arena, where change is slow to manifest and acceptance of new technology even slower, there are very few true disruptors. Much of...
Market disrupter
Whether you subscribe to GenFlux (those who seek constant disruption) or hold to the adage that history repeats itself ad infinitum (the future is...
Take it outside
The 2015 City Park Facts report generated by The Trust for Public Land shows that off-leash parks are the fastest growing segment of urban...
Gunfight at the Airbnb coral
That means Airbnb and others must stick to advertising San Francisco hosts who have registered with the city and haven’t exceeded the number of...
The bounce
“Apartment demand surged in second quarter,” says Greg Willett, chief economist for MPF Research, a division of Real Page Inc. “Strong demand pushed occupancy...
Getting inside multifamily’s utility management operation
“In many states we’re seeing an increase in the trend to mandate submetering for any residential and commercial new building construction. Around eight states...
The laws of human nature
Andy, a ‘Bama boy, lost his mother to cancer and his father in a car wreck shortly thereafter at the age of 19. He...
Charging into the future
The electric vehicle charger, product of the transportation revolution, is an amenity residents are requesting in ever-greater numbers. Three companies that provide those chargers to...
Build that community
Until recently, this was the gospel truth for the national real estate space, but a few leasing professionals are breaking from the pack and...
Bracing for a storm
The vestige I want to specifically address is risk assessment and underwriting of lease agreements in the multifamily industry, or more simply, the process...
The silent crisis
Terwilliger moderated a panel of distinguished experts discussing how housing needs to become a higher national policy priority, why national policy must change to...
